Word: 1950s
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...policeman is suited for the job of global traffic cop, not crimebuster. Even though it acted with resolve 35 years ago in what was then the Belgian Congo (now Zaire), and though its authority lent crucial coloration to the American-led defense of South Korea in the 1950s and the ejection of Iraqi invaders from Kuwait as this decade opened, the list of disputes negotiated with only a walk-on part, if any, for the supposed supercop is impressive: a historic handshake across the Rhine between West Germany and France; the start of the Common Market and today's European...
...MOST SUCCESSFUL PUBlic-health programs ever conducted, without doubt, was the U.S. campaign against polio in the 1950s and '60s. In less than a decade, the withering scourge that had at one point struck nearly 60,000 children a year was all but eradicated from American shores. Almost forgotten in the decades since, however, has been the terrible price a small number of children pay as a by-product of the protection the rest of the population enjoys. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, six babies a year, on average, contract paralytic polio from the very vaccine...
...Simpsons and Frasier and Seinfeld more than stand up to I Love Lucy and Mary Tyler Moore and Cheers; that dramas like NYPD Blue and ER are broadening the scope of narrative art; that, heretical as it may sound, the 1990s are television's real Golden Age, the 1950s and Philco TV Playhouse and Paddy Chayefsky and Winky Dink and You notwithstanding...
DIED. DON CHERRY, 58, jazz musician; of liver failure; near Malaga, Spain. In the 1950s, the trumpeter experimented with "free jazz" sound and rhythm opposite the sax of Ornette Coleman. By the '60s, Cherry was a world-music pioneer, exploring influences so diverse--South Africa, Indonesia, Brazil, Bulgaria, the Middle East--he was dubbed "the musical Marco Polo...
Black people may point to prejudices harbored by white people over the past 400 years and say, "Do you remember the 1950s," or the years of slavery? And I would respond by saying, "Do you know today?" For anyone who thinks that we still are a racist society, I will gladly concede that much to you, but only in light of the fact that racism merely pervades the outer fringes of American society, not its core...